Craig Burley: Why Vogts can't stay

Were going backwards under Vogts, whose lack of tactics have further confused his disorientated players

THE performance and result against Wales proved we have not moved forward one iota under Berti Vogts. In fact, we are flying backwards at a great rate of knots — you could see as much in the manager’s face after the game. Vogts appears to have no answers. Christian Dailly said after the game that the team are still behind him, but I don’t think they believed in him even before Wednesday’s game. It was gone before then. The players simply don’t understand what’s being asked of them.

It was patently obvious to me in my one game under Vogts that there was a clear misunderstanding of the way we are going, and that’s still evident now. A couple of my teammates at Preston who watched the game on Welsh TV said that John Toshack claimed: “Great result, but we are only playing Scotland.” That’s the stock which we’re held in